In the ongoing CPI (M) country conference in Kerala, Chairman of the Pinarayany Minister Vijayan has presented a policy draft for the development of Kerala. The spotlight of the policy design is a proposal for massive private investment in the state higher education sector.
Vijayan encourages the privatization of higher education at a time of CPI (M) in West Bengal protesting against new schools under the PPP model.
Kerala said must be the center of higher education. This calls for building new educational centers and excellence. At present the gross registration ratio in the Kerala Higher Education sector is 37 percent. The draft said it must be increased to 50 percent in the next five years. It demanded a call to build new higher education centers in Kerala. Strengthening existing higher education centers, academically and infrastructure, will not be enough, said the design of the policy. A large new educational institution must arise in the government sector, the private sector and the cooperative sector, it adds, estimates higher education institutions under the PPP model. The draft has not specifically mentioned private universities and said the government must have a company control over the higher education sector, ensuring social justice.
What happens next?
The draft will be debated in the conference and propose amendments, if any, will be included. This will be debated among LDF allies, before being formed as a policy and placed before the LDF government for implementation. CPI (M) State Secretary KodiYeri Balakrishnan said the policy was intended to be implemented.
CPI(M) as champion of privatisation of education
After a strong opponent of the privatization of the professional education sector, CPI (M) slowly changed over the past decade. It has been described as a change in harmony with the time and aspirations of the middle class that grows in Kerala where small-sized families are willing to invest in professional education children. CPI (M), who led the violent protest against the first medical college in the cooperative sector, then took the same route to build a professional educational empire in Kerala. It was also revealed that the ward of several Senior CPI leaders (M) was studying in self-financing colleges.
Over the past two decades, the financing education sector itself has grown strongly. Data on higher education in Kerala shows that, 69.38 percent of universities in Kerala are now in the self-financing sector. Of the 177 college engineering under the University of Engineering Kerala, 165 is self financing.
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